OCR Text |
Show UTAH n1SS Arthur Morse Monn, Salt Lake actor, widely known in the west, died nt Helena, Mont., from influenza. Work on the stale road from Sevier bridge dam to the boundary between Millard and Juab counties will start immediately. More than 200 telephone operators have banded themselves together in a local organization of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers at Salt Lake. A. W. Ivins. of Salt Lake, has been appointed by the agricultural department depart-ment as agricultural adviser to the district board, with headquarters at Salt Lake. J. H. Matthews, charged with the violation of the selective service regulations regu-lations by giving his age incorrectly, was sentenced to serve six months in jail at Ogden. One thousand, one hundred and seventy-nine cases of Spanish influenza were reported to the city board of health at Salt Lake between October 10 and October IS. Four sons of Mrs. M. M. Patten of Payson are serving in 1 he American army. Mrs. Patten came to Utah with a handcart company and was among the first to reach Salt Lake valley. 13. T. Palfreymau. one of the most prominent business men and politicians in Utah county, died at his home in Springvilla from influenza, with which e had suffered for only five days. Thomas Koarns, former United States senator from Utah, pioneer, mining and railroad magnate, died at Salt Lake, October IS, after an illness of one week from a stroke of apoplexy. While playing with some powder taken from rifle cartridges, Leland Gillespie, aged 11, of Salt Lake, was burned about the face and head and narrowly escaped losing his eyesight. "Uncle Billy" Wilson, builder of the famous Hermitage hotel in Ogden canyon and one of the most widely known men in the west, died at Ogden, Og-den, October 21, of' influenza-pneumonia. That the epidemic of Spanish influenza influ-enza has reached it apex in Utah was the opinion expressed Saturday by health authorities after a careful check had been made of the reports for the past week. An official announcement from the board of education to the effect that salaries of teachers will he paid as usual, us-ual, despite their inability to perform their work during the epidemic, probably prob-ably will be made during the week. Official recognition that Utah was the first state to complete the work in connection with the classification and the physical examinations of registrants regis-trants of September, 1918. between the ages of 19 and 36 inclusive, was received re-ceived last week. Local draft boards of Utah are instructed, in-structed, in orders sent out from state headquarters' Saturday to transmit questionnaires to such registrants as have been Inducted into the student army training corps and have not yet filled out these documents. The Industrial commission of Utah last week found that Constancio Ola-nue. Ola-nue. whose spine was dislocated in two places In a mine accident at the Utah Metals & Tunnel property, August 28, 1917, has been entitled to $12 a week compensation since ten days after that date. Utah lands included in the proposed Colorado river drainage basin project totaling 010,000 acres may be benefited bene-fited by the bill before the United States senate appropriating $1,000,000 for surveys of farms for returned soldiers sol-diers and employes of war-time munitions muni-tions works. Ogden city and Weber county went 1 over the top with a big whoop. The district exceeded its quota with a big margin. The total subscriptions October Octo-ber 19 brought the big figures up to $2,213,350, coming from more than 12,-300 12,-300 subscribers. The quota for the district dis-trict was $2,178,300. Sentence has heen suspended by Juvenile Ju-venile Judge Joshua Homer at Ogden, in the case of a girl, 12 years of age, who was charged with the theft of $100 from a neighbor's house. The re turn of all but vz.nu ot tne money, which had been used in buying ice cream sodas, resulted in the securing of leniency for the girl. When the canning factories of the state completed their run on tomatoes Saturday night it was estimated the total pack was approximate 1,200.000 cases, as against a million cases which was the early estimate. The additional quarter of a million cases, it is said, were obtained through the excellent weather conditions. W. H. Pyott, a Salt Lake chiropractor, chiro-practor, who Is accused of having in-j in-j serted an advertisement in the local I newspapers of September 29 declaring that by inoculation for the Spanish influenza the army surgeons had destroyed des-troyed tlte constitutions of a large number num-ber of young men and rendered them unfit for the duties of life, faces a charge of violating the espionage act. As a labor conservation measure the Western Union Telegraph company at Salt Luke has put into erfect a plan v which overnight accumulations of 'night letters" will be delivered ca"!y ach morning by the pnsioffice letter arricrs instead of by messengers. To meet the needs of enlisted men at to UniversHy of Ulan, taking the spent spe-nt course in training for military s:-r-ce as well as (hose at Fort Douglas, Movement is mule:- way by lie-' '--ills of Columbus to cstaM'sli a hut ilnr to tii"se i:i use nt miiw train-r train-r caiaps throughout the eeiin; iy. |